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In word cheering, students sing, chant and move to the components of new words.

A personal picture dictionary is an individual vocabulary and spelling resource students make themselves.

Word webs are mind maps that promote active learning and help students develop higher-order thinking skills. Students map their thinking in a graphic organizer based on a Frayer model.

Guess the Covered Word challenges students’ vocabularies and reading comprehension by requiring them to deduce words redacted from a text.

Making Words is a hands-on activity in which students learn how adding and moving letters can create new words.

Interactive “foldables” help students learn new vocabulary through defining, illustrating and using words in sentences.

My Pile, Your Pile is an interactive word game that increases students’ Tier Two and Tier Three vocabularies.

Meet New Vocabulary uses a graphic organizer to help students acquire new vocabulary while reading. This strategy is most effective when teaching challenging, domain-specific words (Tier Three).

A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from central texts students are reading.

During resistant reading, students analyze the dominant reading of a text and “resist” it by engaging in alternative readings. Resistant readings scrutinize the beliefs and attitudes that typically go unexamined in a text, drawing attention to the gaps, silences and contradictions.